Leveling the Playing Field
How the Law Can Make Sports Better for Fans
Published on 1. July 2009
381 pages
978-0-674-04502-6 (ISBN)
Description
The ideal of evenly balanced sporting contests is continually challenged by economic, social, and technological forces. Consequently, Weiler argues, the law is essential to level the playing field for players, owners, fans, and taxpayers. Weiler analyzes a wide array of moral and economic issues that arise in all American competitive sports.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-04502-6 (9780674045026)
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Book
12/2001
Harvard University Press
€59.56
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Person
Paul Weiler is the Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law at Harvard University.
Content
Contents Prologue: Sports on Trial I The Integrity of Sports 1 Misconduct on the Field 2 Honoring Civil Rights in Sports 3 The Deadliest Sin in Sports 4 The Sports War on Drugs 5 Athletes as Role Models 6 The Moral Ideal for American Sports II Owners versus Players 7 Show Us the Money 8 Sports Joins the Union 9 Opening the Flood-Gates 10 What Antitrust Did for Players 11 How to Level the Player Field 12 Salary Sharing among Players III Owners versus Owners -- and Fans 13 The Brave New World of Franchise Free Agency 14 How Far Have We Traveled? 15 What the Law Should Do with Raiders 16 Stadium Socialism or a Stadium Cap? 17 Sports in Intellectual Space 18 What Should Leagues Be Like? 19 Expand or Break up the Big Leagues? 20 A Better World for Fans Epilogue. A Performance-Enhancing Law for Sports Acknowledgements Index
